Category: Kurdistan Province

Kurdistan province is one of the provinces of Iran with the center of Sanandaj city, which is located in the west of the country. The area of this province is 29.137 square kilometers, equivalent to 1/7 of the total area of Iran. This province, which is located in the scattered slopes and plains of the Middle Zagros Mountains, is limited from the north to the provinces of West Azerbaijan and Zanjan, from the east to Hamedan and Zanjan, from the south to this province and from the west to Kurdistan and Iraq. This province shares a 200-kilometer border with Iraq. According to the latest divisions of the country in 1390, Kurdistan province has 10 cities, 29 cities, 31 districts, 86 villages and 1697 inhabited villages and 187 uninhabited villages. The cities of this province are: Sanandaj, Saqez, Marivan, Baneh, Qorveh, Kamyaran, Bijar, Divandere, Dehgolan and Sarvabad. According to the 2016 Population and Housing Census, this Province has a population of 1,603,011, of which 66% is urban and 34% is rural. The relative population density is 51.2 people per square kilometer.